Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-02-27

covers wss curious document. In sub
stance il stated that he had in tho
latter years OF his life but three fears
enc that be might be committed TO
some public institution the second
that be would after his death be
"carved in the interests OF science"
and the third that his burial would be
that Of pauper. The amount TO his
credit in the savings bank was over
500. He was buried in a separate
crave in one Of onr suburban Gene
terics, and a marble tombstone marks
the place of his rest. There il some
thing pathetic in this. Knowing that
death was inevitable, being without
friends or the ability TO earn money, he
steadiasily chung 10 the little fund
which was to accord him q respectable
burial.
sORB SPECULATIVE LIGHTS.
In the enormous increase of specu-
lation in this country within the last
few years, under the fostering influence
Of commercial exchanges, q number Of
leaders in their campaigns of chance
have come 20 the front as a natural
product of these feverish times. At
the Produce Exchange among the moa
prominent of these commercial chief
tains ia Edward Cottrill, a slightly
built man, under the medium height,
of dark, sallOw complexion. He Is
nervous in manner, but is one OF the
bold operators on Change, though not
so venturesome az formerly. He has
made and lost several fortunes in
wheat, and is wealthy now. Both
he and Charles ROus, another
well known Spectator, are about
forty years of age. ROus is a
email, sandy-complexioned man, cool
by temperament, and very success
ful. With the experience OF many
CAMPAIGNS TO guide them these two
still comparatively young men may yet
be numbered among the financial pow
ers of the metropolis, though the specu-
lator, however powerful, who relies
solely on the turns in the wheel oil
SPECULATION, unaidcd by any Legitimate
business to keep him in purple and
gold, is usually in the end crushed by
the iuggernaut of chance, and LETT a
mangled warning that nature intended
mon TO work on this planet and not to
merely stand the hazard of the die. But
there is no absolute uniformity in natu-
allaws, as the careerof Stephen Il. Post
sec ms to exemplify. He lisa Quaker who
CANDLES very heavily in wheat. He is as
cool and smiling as a morning
in May. 1t is the May option, indeed,
by singular fitness of things, judged
from this fanciful standpoint, that he
has lately seemed to favor. He is really
one of the boldest spectators in this
country and one of the shrewdest. de
is fully sixty-fve years of age has
handsome, benevolent features, over
which beam blue eyes, while his hair Is
of patriarchal fineness and whiteness.
lie is one of the wealthiest OF the
wheat operators and also one OF the
most popular. The singular fact con
corning his career is that, though he
has been in the grain speculation Tor
about fifteen years, he has never yet
failed to meet his obligations, and that
to-day i'll the sporting parlance-not
inappropriate in speaking OF grain
gan bling-he is largely ahead OF
The came. He lives in Brooklyn,
and understand is an eloquent ex-
hortor at the religious meetings Of the
Quakers. The traditional Quaker, IT
will be remembered, said to his son
Jonathan, get riches honestly if thou
canst, but get riches" Our Quaker
mend of the Produce Exchange has got
riches, and has never been accused OF
nything the reverse of honesty in his
business career. There are strange
vicissitudes of fortune TO be observed
in this great hive of business and specu-
lation. / have watched the rise OF ii.
c. Armour, Anderson. Gowler, and
others now worth millions, and ! have
seen once-prosperous men borrowing
money Of those plutocrats, the report
ers, and in one instance n broker be.
caL. G so reduced in the days of the old
Exchange that he was seen ut It's doors
selling lead-pencils.